PAMM Chief Curator, Tobias Ostrander, discusses AMERICANA: Desiring Landscape. For centuries, representation of the landscape has been a means to explore human desires—from the sensual and sexual to the materialistic—to alternate interpretations of history, and the implications of expanding industry and economic development.

PEN American Center presents, in partnership with Friends of Ai Weiwei and Brooklyn Public Library, a literary protest of Beijing’s efforts to silence Ai Weiwei and other Chinese writers and artists. PEN American Center will hold the rally in Brooklyn, NY on Thursday, April 10 at 7pm. Those who cannot attend can show their support by tweeting with #WITHFLOWERS.